Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…”

You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

Today - 07/11/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Short interview on the BBC Today programme with Amol Rajan, discussing the upcoming Brazil COP and how the so-called “cost of living crisis” is being (mis)used by leaders and high emitters to avoid taking meaningful action on climate change.

Starts at 2.36.30. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Woman yelling at cat meme, captioned 'Prevent dangerous interference with the climate system' and 'Highest possible ambition'.

What holding policymakers to their word feels like

I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.

Progress towards a police state As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a stand-off with Democratic-led states resisting his ...

Progress towards a police state www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10... The US is heading for civil war unless Trump suddenly changes trajectory. How far behind are we in the creation of a police state?

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Los Angeles The Point, However, Is to Change It In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton's forthcoming book "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late," Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors' 2024 title "Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown." By Genevieve Guenther • September 13, 2025 ENVIRONMENT POLITICS ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

"Would it really threaten the global ruling class if the world phased out fossil fuels? The answer to this question—Malm and Carton’s exegesis of the wealth lost if we stopped using coal, oil, and gas—lies at the core of Overshoot."

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently.

I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

A great distillation from @dancalverley.bsky.social of the choice we all face now - to change and adopt new lifestyles or to carry on burning carbon as we follow our current selfish paths.

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Au revoir, le Tour - it's for the best Big sporting events, like so much we hold dear, are at odds with a liveable climate

open.substack.com/pub/dancalve...

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing.
I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit - Nature Climate Change What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a first year above the baseline is highl...

In Nature Climate Change, we show that a year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit. @natclimchange.bsky.social

Can anyone who is a parent, but not a climate activist in any form, please explain to me why not?

Headline "US democracy has died"

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
1/
t.co/FKxxmLyfce

Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. There have been plenty of debates about whether or not Trump and his circle are fascists. In this column, I argue that the debate solves nothing. What we’re seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised societies: autocratic tyranny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

8. To counter the spiral requires massive political effort: dissent, protest, non-cooperation and the building of alternatives on a vast scale. The response by power will be extreme repressive violence. Only societies prepared to withstand it produce alternatives to tyranny.

Screenshot of the article’s first two paragraphs

I have an issue with your first two paragraphs: you’re comparing aviation and concrete emissions

This ignores the inequality and choice of flying

Concrete is a systemic issue that no individual can affect. Flying cannot be compared this way

Your framing doesn’t focus on the root cause: inequality

From a security perspective, this is how the future looks:

Gated communities (GC)
In survival-favourable locations
Defended by private military companies
Using lethal and non-lethal weapons
To secure GC inhabitants and infrastructure / resources (food, water, energy)
From climate displaced people

Has a more than 10x increase in fossil fuels really been essential for the population growing by 3x?

Hang on, why does getting back to 1950s levels of energy consumption equate to everyone 'going back' to hunter-gathering or subsistence farming? How many of our grandparents were hunter-gatherers? (Not saying more energy – fossil or renewable – isn't required to support a bigger population).

Good article, but OMG the frothing at the mouth climate denial in the comments section is off the charts!

The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them? | Jeremy Corbyn Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it, says Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North

@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social tells it like it is

Why won't KeirStarmer and co. listen?

I really don't think they have a clue about what's coming

If they did, they would be in full panic mode

I know I am

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Big companies will use their market power to drive up prices in the event of a crisis.”

NEW: Listen to @meadwaj.bsky.social explain climate-flation in our very festive @macrodosepod.bsky.social x Break Down crossover episode

www.break-down.org/post/year-in-review-a-macrodose-crossover

Can we get to overseas conferences without wrecking the planet? Two Oxford researchers share their eye-opening journey to a conference in Marrakesh by train and ferry instead of flying. Discover the challenges, unexpected joys, and compelling environmental case fo...

Can we get to overseas conferences without wrecking the planet? Yes, absolutely!

Dr Alison Chisholm and Dr Juliet Carpenter travel to a conference in Marrakesh by train and ferry, and share their eye-opening journey here 👇
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/train-t...

I don't think scientists have any more insight into this than anyone else tbh.

Bus usage outside London has fallen since the market was deregulated, while London bus usage has grown

That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation
on.ft.com/49PfLlV

Asset Managers Invest $7.3bn in Fossil Fuel Bonds Explore how leading asset managers, including BlackRock and Vanguard, are financing fossil fuels, contradicting climate goals and risking future returns.

One more way in which the #FinancialSector is a threat to the security of us all.

#ClimateEmergency
www.edie.net/report-major...